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The Who's Who of Zen BuddhismThu, 19 Feb 2015 15:23:18 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Abels, Gregory Hoshohttp://sweepingzen.com/gregory-hosho-abels-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/gregory-hosho-abels-bio/#commentsThu, 14 Jan 2010 16:58:23 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=4692Gregory Hosho Jin-o Abels is Co-Resident Teacher at Still Mind Zendo in Manhattan (founded 1994), chant master and Board Vice President. He is the author of Never Something Else: Poems from the Eye of Zen. From 1975 to 1988 he was a spiritual director. He enjoyed a 48 year career as an actor, stage director ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/gregory-hosho-abels-bio/feed/0Abels, Janet Jiryuhttp://sweepingzen.com/janet-jiryu-abels-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/janet-jiryu-abels-bio/#commentsThu, 14 Jan 2010 16:56:03 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=4689Janet Jiryu Abels (born March 15, 1950) is the founder and co-resident teacher of Still Mind Zendo in New York City. She received dharma transmission from her teacher, Roshi Robert Jinsen Kennedy, in 2000 and is currently vice-president of the White Plum Asanga (in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi) and is a member of the American ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/janet-jiryu-abels-bio/feed/0Abramson, Trudi Jinpu Hirschhttp://sweepingzen.com/abramson-trudi-jinpu-hirsch/
http://sweepingzen.com/abramson-trudi-jinpu-hirsch/#commentsMon, 24 Jan 2011 14:25:33 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=21114Trudi Jinpu Hirsch Abramson, is a Senior Soto Zen Priest in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi. She was born in NYC in 1951. She started practicing zazen with John Daido Loori Roshi and she moved to the Zen Mountain Monastery in 1981. She received Jukai in 1990, and ordained on Oct 20th, 1991. Jinpu left ...

Prior to her formal Dharma practice, Jinpu was the Principal Dancer, for the Bot D’Or Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel; a Soloist in Les Grandes Ballet Canadien, Canada; and a Soloist for the Harkness Ballet Company in New York City.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/abramson-trudi-jinpu-hirsch/feed/0Aerts, Gretha Myoshinhttp://sweepingzen.com/aerts-gretha-myoshin/
http://sweepingzen.com/aerts-gretha-myoshin/#commentsSun, 09 Sep 2012 23:47:41 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=64571Gretha Aerts (b. November 19, 1947), an art teacher and artist, met Nico Tydeman in 1985, marking the beginning of a lifelong relationship as teacher/student and as friends. She has studied with Dennis Genpo Merzel, who gave her the dharma name Myoshin in 1986. He ordinated her in 1995. She lived for a few years ...

]]>Gretha Aerts (b. November 19, 1947), an art teacher and artist, met Nico Tydeman in 1985, marking the beginning of a lifelong relationship as teacher/student and as friends. She has studied with Dennis Genpo Merzel, who gave her the dharma name Myoshin in 1986. He ordinated her in 1995. She lived for a few years in his Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Back in Holland in 2001, she continued to study with Nico Tydeman, Sensei and received dharma transmission in February 2011 from him. Since 1991, she was already involved in the Zen centers in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Now she is the spiritual leader of Zen Center Rotterdam.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/aerts-gretha-myoshin/feed/0Althouse, Robert Joshinhttp://sweepingzen.com/robert-joshin-althouse-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/robert-joshin-althouse-bio/#commentsTue, 22 Dec 2009 17:29:45 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=143Robert Joshin Althouse (born March 29, 1949) is a Zen teacher and member of the White Plum Asanga, a dharma heir of Jikyo Nicolee McMahon Roshi. He is the current abbot of Zen Life and Meditation Center of Chicago in Illinois. He founded the Zen Center of Hawaii in 1993 and later received Dharma transmission ...

He served as Director of the Zen Peacemaker Order for two years and was also on the Board of Directors of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship founded by Robert Aitken and others. Following the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, Althouse began giving “Inner Disarmement” workshops, aimed at gaining better communication skills in order to generate healthy conflict resolution.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/robert-joshin-althouse-bio/feed/0Ancheta, Alfred Jitsudohttp://sweepingzen.com/alfred-jitsudo-ancheta-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/alfred-jitsudo-ancheta-bio/#commentsTue, 22 Dec 2009 17:45:37 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=154Alfred Jitsudo Ancheta is a Sōtō Zen priest and Dharma heir of the late Taizan Maezumi-roshi. Ancheta also received inka from Tetsugen Bernard Glassman in 1999. A Sangha Senior with the Zen Peacemaker Order, Ancheta lives and works in a family compound located in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he has developed a practice in the arts ...

]]>Alfred Jitsudo Ancheta is a Sōtō Zen priest and Dharma heir of the late Taizan Maezumi-roshi. Ancheta also received inka from Tetsugen Bernard Glassman in 1999. A Sangha Senior with the Zen Peacemaker Order, Ancheta lives and works in a family compound located in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he has developed a practice in the arts as a woodblock printmaker, and a designer/carver of signature “chops” or seals. He has given transmission to one individual, Syndey Musai Walter.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/alfred-jitsudo-ancheta-bio/feed/0Andersen, Susan Myoyuhttp://sweepingzen.com/susan-myoyu-andersen-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/susan-myoyu-andersen-bio/#commentsTue, 22 Dec 2009 17:49:52 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=158Susan Myoyu Andersen is a Sōtō Zen priest and member of the White Plum Asanga — a Dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi. Myoyu-Roshi is the guiding teacher of the Great Plains Zen Center with communities in northwest Chicago and southern Wisconsin. In May of 2006 she received inka from Dennis Genpo Merzel of the Kanzeon Zen Center in Utah. ...

]]>Susan Myoyu Andersen is a Sōtō Zen priest and member of the White Plum Asanga — a Dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi. Myoyu-Roshi is the guiding teacher of the Great Plains Zen Center with communities in northwest Chicago and southern Wisconsin. In May of 2006 she received inka from Dennis Genpo Merzel of the Kanzeon Zen Center in Utah. Ordained a monk in the Japanese tradition in 1978, Myoyu has two children and also practices Reiki and works as an occupational therapist for children with developmental disabilities.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/susan-myoyu-andersen-bio/feed/0Arbiter, Eric Kishinhttp://sweepingzen.com/arbiter-eric-kishin/
http://sweepingzen.com/arbiter-eric-kishin/#commentsSun, 05 Jan 2014 05:42:12 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=90643This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database. *Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated.

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/arbiter-eric-kishin/feed/0Arnold, Geoffrey Shugenhttp://sweepingzen.com/geoffrey-shugen-arnold-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/geoffrey-shugen-arnold-bio/#commentsTue, 22 Dec 2009 18:04:07 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=167Geoffrey Shugen Arnold (born 1957) is a sensei with the Mountains and Rivers Order and a Dharma heir to John Daido Loori. A member of the White Plum Asanga, he currently serves as Abbot of the Zen Center of New York, a sister temple to Zen Mountain Monastery. A full time resident-in-training since 1986, today ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/geoffrey-shugen-arnold-bio/feed/0Bachman, Carl Genjohttp://sweepingzen.com/bachman-carl-genjo/
http://sweepingzen.com/bachman-carl-genjo/#commentsThu, 02 Jan 2014 12:46:40 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=90005This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database. *Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated.

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/bachman-carl-genjo/feed/0Baker, Nancy Mujohttp://sweepingzen.com/nancy-mujo-baker-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/nancy-mujo-baker-bio/#commentsTue, 22 Dec 2009 18:34:27 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=196Nancy Mujo Baker is a Zen teacher in the White Plum Asanga, member of the Zen Peacemakers, and a Dharma heir of Tetsugen Bernard Glassman. A professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York since 1974, Baker has taught philosophy and gender studies during her tenure there. In 1996 she founded No Traces Zendo, ...

]]>Nancy Mujo Baker is a Zen teacher in the White Plum Asanga, member of the Zen Peacemakers, and a Dharma heir of Tetsugen Bernard Glassman. A professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York since 1974, Baker has taught philosophy and gender studies during her tenure there. In 1996 she founded No Traces Zendo, a group with no fixed location that currently gathers in various locations in New York.

B.A., Wellesley College. Ph.D., Brandeis University. Special interests in philosophy of mind, the later work of Wittgenstein, philosophy of religion, and feminist theory; author of articles on Wittgenstein and Vygotsky.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/nancy-mujo-baker-bio/feed/0Bakker, Irene Kaigetsuhttp://sweepingzen.com/bakker-irene-kaigetsu/
http://sweepingzen.com/bakker-irene-kaigetsu/#commentsFri, 03 Jan 2014 05:23:17 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=90239This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database. *Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated.

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/bakker-irene-kaigetsu/feed/0Barragato, Margaret Ne-Ekahttp://sweepingzen.com/barragato-margaret-ne-eka-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/barragato-margaret-ne-eka-bio/#commentsThu, 14 Jan 2010 11:24:58 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=4664Margaret Ne-Eka Barragato was a founding teacher of Treetop Zen Center in Oakland, Maine, along with her late husband, Stefano Mui Barragato. A member of the White Plum Asanga, she received Dharma Transmission from Stef in 2002, while still a layperson, and later received Denkai, (full priest ordination) in 2005. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Margaret studied ...

]]>Margaret Ne-Eka Barragato was a founding teacher of Treetop Zen Center in Oakland, Maine, along with her late husband, Stefano Mui Barragato. A member of the White Plum Asanga, she received Dharma Transmission from Stef in 2002, while still a layperson, and later received Denkai, (full priest ordination) in 2005.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Margaret studied biology at the University of Michigan. After graduation, she received a fellowship to continue her studies in Germany. She went on to study cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley to study cell biology, but eventually earned a master of arts in religion from Graduate Theological Union, instead. While there, she became captivated with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, leading her to complete a number of retreats with the Jesuits, and join the Roman Catholic Church. She also attended some Tibetan Buddhist workshops and sitting groups before eventually moving to Greyston Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., headed at the time by Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, Roshi with her husband, Stef.

While living in New York, Margaret worked as a physician’s assistant for many years, primarily as a caregiver for AIDS patients at a time when there was little or nothing the medical establishment had to offer them. “I learned a tremendous amount from my patients, mostly about courage in the face of suffering,” she says.

Margaret held master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Bangor Theological Seminary. She also taught a course at BTS on Christian Buddhist Dialogue, one of her primary areas of interest, and occasionally preached at a Unitarian Universalist Church in central Maine. She died on December 2, 2013.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/barragato-margaret-ne-eka-bio/feed/0Barragato, Stefano Muihttp://sweepingzen.com/stefano-mui-barragato-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/stefano-mui-barragato-bio/#commentsThu, 14 Jan 2010 16:22:29 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=4661Stefano Mui Barragato (April 21, 1930—September 24, 2010) was a member of the White Plum Asanga and the founding teacher of Treetop Zen Center in Oakland, Maine, along with his late wife, Margaret Ne-Eka Barragato. He was ordained as a Zen priest in 1983 by Bernie Glassman, and received Dharma Transmission in 1996 after training at ...

]]>Stefano Mui Barragato (April 21, 1930—September 24, 2010) was a member of the White Plum Asanga and the founding teacher of Treetop Zen Center in Oakland, Maine, along with his late wife, Margaret Ne-Eka Barragato. He was ordained as a Zen priest in 1983 by Bernie Glassman, and received Dharma Transmission in 1996 after training at Greyston Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. for several years.

Stef was interested in teaching a form of Zen that anyone can do and understand, using everyday down-to-earth language, and reaching ordinary people. He calls this style of practice “the little way of Zen” in honor of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. He was the author of the now out-of-print book Zen Light: Unconventional Commentaries on the Denkoroku, a series of reflections on the classic koan collection “Record of Transmitting the Light.”

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1930, Stef registered as a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but his status was rejected and he was sentenced to one year and a day at the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn. This experience sensitized him to the plight of people trapped in the prison system, and led him, years later, to create a Zen meditation group at the Eastern Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in upstate New York.

After prison, he lived in Paraguay for ten years as a member of an intentional pacifist Christian community known as the Religious Society of Brothers, or the Bruderhof. Before ordaining as a Zen priest, Stef worked as a fundraiser and development director for a number of organizations, including the American Friends Service Committee, the University of Southern California’s Center of Urban Affairs, the Sierra Club Foundation, and as executive director of the Jung Institute of Los Angeles.

Stef died in September 2010, after living for more than five years with pulmonary fibrosis.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/stefano-mui-barragato-bio/feed/0Bastien, James Daikanhttp://sweepingzen.com/bastien-james-daikan/
http://sweepingzen.com/bastien-james-daikan/#commentsSat, 17 Sep 2011 16:49:33 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=37547James Daikan Bastien began his Zen training under the direction of senior monastic students of Dainin Katagiri Roshi at the Nebraska Zen Center in Omaha, Nebraska in 1979. In 1990, Daikan began training with Zen Master Soeng Hyang in the Kwan Um School of Zen where he trained for the next 10 years while administering ...

]]>James Daikan Bastien began his Zen training under the direction of senior monastic students of Dainin Katagiri Roshi at the Nebraska Zen Center in Omaha, Nebraska in 1979. In 1990, Daikan began training with Zen Master Soeng Hyang in the Kwan Um School of Zen where he trained for the next 10 years while administering human service organizations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In 2005, he was asked to serve as President of the Zen Peacemakers organization while doing “work practice” with Roshi Bernie Glassman from whom he received Dharma Transmission in March of 2011. Daikan was also given transmission as a Lay Preceptor in the Zen Peacemaker Order by Roshi Eve Myonen Marko in August of 2011.

Daikan’s practice centers on the provision of dharma informed human services which he has implemented across a diverse number of human service settings including group homes, foster homes, residential treatment centers, residential schools, child and adult psychiatric hospitals and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.